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Flirt vs Lust - What's the difference?

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In intransitive terms the difference between flirt and lust

is that flirt is (to play at courtship) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way while lust is to crave sexual contact urgently.

As nouns the difference between flirt and lust

is that flirt is a sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer while lust is a feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

As verbs the difference between flirt and lust

is that flirt is to throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling while lust is to desire very strongly.

As an adjective flirt

is pert; wanton.

flirt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
  • * Addison
    • Several little flirts and vibrations.
  • * Edgar Allan Poe
    • With many a flirt and flutter.
  • One who flirts; especially a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
  • * Addison
    • Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world.
  • An episode of flirting.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
    • They flirt water in each other's faces.
    to flirt a glove, or a handkerchief
  • To jeer at; to mock.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • I am ashamed; I am scorned; I am flirted .
  • *, II.27:
    • Asinius Pollio , having written many invectives against Plancus, staid untill he were dead to publish them. It was rather to flurt at a blind man, and raile in a dead mans eare, and to offend a senselesse man, than incurre the danger of his revenge.
  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
  • * 2012 , Lenora Worth, Sweetheart Reunion
    • Her skirt flirted around her knees like a flower petal.
  • To blurt out.
  • * 1915 , Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel , Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, Ch.XXI:
    • Chatterer flirted his tale in the saucy way he has, and his eyes twinkled.
  • (senseid)To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way.
  • * 2006 , The Guardian , 21 April:
    • Dr Hutchinson, who told jurors that he had been married for 37 years and that his son was a policeman, said he enjoyed flirting with the woman, was flattered by her attention and was anticipating patting her bottom again—but had no intention of seducing her.

    Antonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): belittle

    Synonyms

    * ("to insinuate emotional affection"): coquet, tease

    Adjective

    (-)
  • pert; wanton

    • Related terms

    * flirtatious

    See also

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    lust

    English

    (wikipedia lust)

    Noun

  • A feeling of strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    • Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust .
  • (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
    • The boarders hide their lust to go home.
  • * Spenser
    • For little lust had she to talk of aught.
  • * Bishop Hall
    • My lust to devotion is little.
  • (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
    • An ideal son is his father's lasting lust .
  • (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Derived terms

    * bloodlust * lustful * lustihood * lustily * lustiness * lustless * lusty * lust murder

    Related terms

    * wanderlust

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To desire very strongly.
    • She was lusting after the new short dress she set her eyes on in the shop.
  • To crave sexual contact urgently.

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